Very long time ago, 1986, 31 years ago to be precise, IBM in Europe created the very first architecture of a data warehouse. And it seems to be a masterpiece as it didn’t change much since. Though how can we improve or bring some innovation into Data Warehouse business in times everyone is talking about big data, data lakes, Internet of Things (IoT), predictive analytics, Data Vault, etc.?

No matter how we want to improve the architecture, it has to be automated as much as possible. Nowadays it became too slow for serving the business needs doing it the traditional way. However, I don’t think DWH will go away anytime soon (see more DWH vs Data Lake). I strongly believe that DWA tools are the future and will boost the Data Warehousing reputation back to earlier years.

That’s why I wrote this blog series all about DWA. You can start with the first blog…